Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heat on bankers." As for the council's future relations with Government, which were somewhat strained when it broke away from the Commerce Department in 1961 after a spat with Luther Hodges, Murphy says: "Our relations with the President are close and good, and we intend to maintain them that...
Logical Customers. The new executive line-up is meant to maintain the initiative. Tooker will administer the company and oversee investments, which lean more strongly than in most companies on Government bonds but also stress mortgages on one-family homes ($500 million worth) occupied by the kind of people who are logical customers for multiple insurance. Meanwhile, DeWitt will concentrate on Travelers' newest venture. The company is moving overseas. Beginning with insurance on the growing number of U.S. corporations and families at work abroad, it intends to go on from there to spread its umbrellas around the world...
...billion rescue of the pound. At the top of the private banks are scores of modern-day Rothschilds, Schroders, Brandts, Hambros and other heirs to ancient City fortunes. Despite this strong affection for family and school ties, the City is increasingly looking outward for talent to maintain its standing as what Bank Chairman Jack Hambro calls "one hell of a financial mechanism." In the stock-brokerage firms, in fact, a surprising number of the top partners started out as clerks and now occupy posts that pay $11,000 to $45,000 a year...
...Portuguese colonists did not maintain themselves as rigid European minorities." They intermarried and became part of the Mestizo populations that form a dynamic part of the societies The civilization they created is what Freyre calls Lustropicalism...
Tshombe knows how to maintain his popularity at home-and he does it in a way no other African leader would dare. He talks about the dignity his people have lost through laziness and the common response, "Pas moyen, patron [No can do, boss]." He gives them hell...